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[challenge entry] Stennah Stair Slinky

Thora Hird would have preferred the Stennah space hopper

From the Reinventing The Wheel challenge. See all 162 entries (closed)

(monkeybood, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:47, archived)
# The three-horned version?
(Mrs Trellis GIN, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:48, archived)
# I'm glad you were clever enough
to not be sued by well known stair lift manufacturer Stannah.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:49, archived)
# Stennah aren't the same though
Their salesmen don't come round to break your legs, ensuring you need a stairlift.
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:52, archived)
# Geh!
I mean gah!
This is why I used to suck at chucky egg. Always pressing e when I wanted to go left.
(monkeybood, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:56, archived)
# hehe
Chuckie Egg

ready-up.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/chuckie-egg1.gif

on some of the levels I could play the entire key sequence needed to clear the level before it had even loaded. The keyboard buffer then did the rest!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:00, archived)
# On the Speccy version, on level 3, I discovered a glitch completely by accident.
As you start you could run right, jump, up, then left and run right through the bird, so long as you didn't stop.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:21, archived)
# I think I remember some stuff like that
it got published in one of the fab magazines you could get at the time
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:25, archived)
# Ah - didn't know it was 'widely known'.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:27, archived)
# Puts a spring in your step
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:49, archived)
# Stannahs?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:51, archived)
# hahaha
she can defrost cows in seconds!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 13:51, archived)
# Thorini Houdini!
Aah bless her
(I helped save b3ta! Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:52, archived)
# Thora Hird made me cry.
www.amazon.co.uk/Talking-Heads-Complete-DVD/dp/B0006PTYOW

If you haven't seen this, please do so. I guarantee no dry eyes in your house.

edit: Wow, cheap price too - lots of good stuff there.
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:00, archived)
# Is this the Alan Bennet series?
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:01, archived)
# Yep, tis
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:02, archived)
# hmmm
*is dubious*

I like him in short bursts
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:03, archived)
# How short?
His monologues on Talking Heads are 30-40 minutes I think.

(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:04, archived)
# I'm at the 30-40 second mark!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:05, archived)
# Ah well, then you'll have literally years of viewing pleasure if you bought that and watched 30 seconds a day
I was dubious when I got it as a present but it gives me great joy (and makes me blub)
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:07, archived)
# I probably would watch it
but only if I'd bought it for under a fiver and could then give it as an Xmas present afterwards :D
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:08, archived)
# I have the first series on VHS that you could gladly have if you really wanted it
edit: Hmm - Actually might cost you a fiver for postage
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:09, archived)
# aw cheers Dixie
however I no longer have a VHS player! I still seem to have plenty of VHS tapes though!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:12, archived)
# I have both (player and lots of tapes) - but can never be arsed to hook up the VCR
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:14, archived)
# *reads comments*
hahahahahahahaha - are you chocaholic59?

But seriously. I will watch it.
(I helped save b3ta! Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:04, archived)
# hahah no, but I suffer from the same chocoholism
You'll love it :)
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:06, archived)
# I remember watching these when they were first on
superb telly and clearly the sort of thing that SHOULD be repeated and never is
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:16, archived)
# David Frost?
This guy is going to go postal

awkwardfamilyphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/christmascards-1.jpg?w=300&h=450
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:51, archived)
# the dogs face tells the entire story
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 13:52, archived)
# Pfft.
He also has the largest hand I ever did see.
(I helped save b3ta! fannycradock, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:54, archived)
# FAT HANDED TWAT!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 13:55, archived)
# Can't fool me with his
comedy headgear distraction games, no Siree.
(I helped save b3ta! fannycradock, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:58, archived)
#
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQyxGTjZi2I
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:03, archived)
# Of cooourse
I bloody love The Eldon.
(I helped save b3ta! fannycradock, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:08, archived)
# I love the whole picture
but most of all the guy's face :D

He is shacked up with Denis Van Outen though
(I helped save b3ta! Duke Otterby you pre-verts, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:58, archived)
# haha
she does look a bit like her
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 13:59, archived)
# now that looks fun
perhaps this is the answer to getting cows back downstairs
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 13:51, archived)
# Poor Del Boy!
This is great :D
Slight TJ: So I'm coming up to my 1000th post, isn't there some kind of ritual that needs to be committed or sumfink?
(I helped save b3ta! fannycradock, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:52, archived)
# you need to take a hostage
and then post a video of their execution.


No hang on - that's Al Qaeda
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 13:55, archived)
# Bollocks
I need a head coffin - STAT.
(I helped save b3ta! fannycradock, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:00, archived)
# Tackle/ladybits (delete as appropriate)
is the norm

though I've successfully avoided it myself
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:00, archived)
# Crikey - I would break the internets.
I think I'll do a picture of a lovely duckling instead.
(I helped save b3ta! fannycradock, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:05, archived)
# what are you saying?!
your genitals are so impressive that they will cause a technical malfunction of some description?
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:07, archived)
# One mere glimpse of a nipple
and birds fall from the sky.
(I helped save b3ta! fannycradock, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:11, archived)
# THEN WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:12, archived)
# oh, no it has to be artistic
and SFW
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:17, archived)
# with a link to nawty
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:19, archived)
# Be assured
I certainly won't be squatting over a scanner :D
(I helped save b3ta! fannycradock, Fri 15 May 2009, 14:21, archived)
# >--<
hahaha
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 15 May 2009, 14:26, archived)
# hahahahahahhahahaha
*most disturbing mental image of the day*
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 15 May 2009, 15:05, archived)
# yay for Ron Mueck
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:54, archived)
# Hahahaha
very clever!
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 15 May 2009, 13:58, archived)